No. My point is that Microsoft allows the damn thing to be ran in kernel space. Mac, linux don't have this problem due to how THEY architected the system. Yes I think that puts Microsoft at blame.
Microsoft should have no say to decide what software I am allowed to run on my computer.
> Mac, linux don't have this problem due to how THEY architected the system.
You're joking right? You're arguing kernel panics can't happen on Linux? FFS, the CrowdStrike sensor caused kernel panics on multiple Linux distros in the last few months! Linux is not immune to kernel panics for buggy kernel modules.
The first point is pretty philosophical so I'm not gonna go far into that. At the end of the day you bought a product from a company, some of those products have a way to load programs on and some are locked down (a microwave). "should" is pretty biased whether I agree with that conclusion or not.
Two: Here I'm not arguing about what's possible but rather what happened in the real world. 8.5 M machines down, my org runs Macs, we knew about it from the news...
No smarty pants, I'm arguing that you can't load a program on a microwave's microprocessor. Should I be able to do that?
"And yes, in the real-world, third-party software can and does cause Macs to crash." Thanks for adding so much to the conversation (eyes rolled).
In the absolute sense 8.5M machines is a lot. Airlines down is a lot. Hospitals down is a lot. Hey we guarantee we won't wreck 99.4% of our machines out there! is not a good guarantee.
Yes, you are arguing for that microwave when you argue Microsoft should approve the software you're allowed to run on a Windows box and be liable for its performance. Should Microsoft also have to approve what browsers you're allowed to run, should they approve what chat applications you're allowed to use?
And sure, why shouldn't you be able to modify the software on hardware you own? It's your microwave. If you modify the software on it and that causes it to burn up don't go to the manufacturer when it burns your house down. But that's true if you open it up and rewire it as well. Which, sure, feel free to open it up. It is your microwave.
Are you arguing you shouldn't be able to modify the things you own?
> Thanks for adding so much to the conversation
I mean it seriously seems like you're arguing MacOS and Linux are immune to third party software crashing the system. Do you agree or disagree that third party software can cause MacOS and Linux instability, especially when the user chooses to run it at root level permissions?
> we guarantee we won't wreck
Microsoft didn't wreck these machines. CrowdStrike wrecked these machines. Every Windows machine that did not have CrowdStrike installed was unaffected by this, which is 99.4% of Windows machines.
> what happened in the real world
And yes, look at those bug reports, those are crashes happening in the real world not something theoretical. Kernel panics happen!
I'm not making an analogy with the microwave (your saying food is software and the microwave is hardware) I'm literally talking about the software that runs on a microwave.
This is incorrect. CrowdStrike caused a similar "won't boot after update was pushed" issue on Linux earlier this year, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41005936